January 15th, NY and finally home!

We wake up to a blizzard outside! Not enough snow to delay or cancel our flight though. It is very fine snow that isn't sticking very well. Our flight isn't until 6pm today so we happily sleep in and lay around most of the day. We take advantage of the complimentary continental breakfast too. I really don't want to go outside but Matt makes me. So I bundle up the best I can. We went to this fabulous place that Starla Stroh recommended called The Cookshop for lunch. An organic restaurant, with great new age food.It was amazing! I'm definitely keeping this place in mind for when we visit again. While we have more time we tell Alex so show up places we haven't seen yet. So he takes us to the East side. We go through the projects which looks nothing like I imagined. You couldn't even really tell it was the projects. The area where all the poor people live is brick apartment after brick apartment, for a couple miles. Alex said they only pay $300 a month for this tiny little place. He took us by Julia Roberts townhouse. He took us to an area called Williamsburg, the Jewish community. It was like a different world! Every single person on the street was either a man with a black hat on, long curly sideburns, and a long black coat or a woman with a towel looking thing on her head. Alex said most of the Jewish woman are bald, and wear wigs or a towel to keep their head warm. Some strange hasidic jew thing? I was taking pictures of them, Alex is from Egypt and he was getting scared that I was taking photos of them. Egypt and Israel have been fighting forever and if someone saw they would probably get really pissed off. We drove around some more and decided to head back to the hotel to pack. The second we got in our room Alex called saying all of the airports in New York were shut down because a plane crashed. My heart jumped into my throat. Could this be another terrorist attack, while we are in NY?? We turned on the news and first thing we saw was a plane in the middle of the Hudson River, it had crashed just moments after taking off. We eventually found out that a flock of birds had flown into both of the engines and made the plane go down. The news said the way the pilot landed in the water saved everyone on the plane. No one had been killed! This happened at La Guardia airport, we were leaving from Newark so our flight was on schedule, but the accident had called every ambulance, fire truck, and cop on the scene so the traffic was horrible and we were afraid we wouldn't make our flight. It was quite an experience to be in, I could only imagine how crazy NY must have been during 9/11. We get to the airport an hour early so we can just relax. I bought a cute little shot glass with the New York landscape on it. We get home around 10pm and the first thing I do is run to Knox. He is so happy to see us! I'm so happy to be home. This trip was probably one of the most amazing trips I have been on. I got to see so much and experience so much. Matt and I even made some lifetime friends. I couldn't have asked for a better vacation. I love traveling with Matt, he is my best friend and the love of my life. Together we get ourselves into some crazy and fun adventures. I can't wait for our next big adventure, but for now this one takes the cake!

January 14th Back in New York

We get up at 9am today, we still have to pack all of our stuff. Our room looks like a tornado came through it, well at least on Matt's side of the room. I was pretty good about keeping my side tidy. My least favorite thing about vacations is packing. I wonder if I can pay a little filipino guy to pack for me? Ray told us that on the last day he would show us all the villas, suites, and penthouses on the ship. I'm excited to see them, we have to wait around for all of them to leave though, but when we get up there it's like a whole other world up there! I knew they would be nice but these are phenomenal! Ray said they have the nicest suites then any other boat since the boat is so new and has all of the upgrades, etc. The villas are the least fancy but there are more rooms. The villas share a common area which has a greek style pool, fluffy beds and chairs everywhere. It is draped in beautiful linens and silk cloths. Every inch in covered in flowers and exotic plants. It is also encased in glass which you can keep closed or open. The rooms are beautiful. Oh, and the bathrooms, I'll just say it would have been nice to have on the trip because it was ten times the size of ours. Now, we went up to the Black Diamond suite. It was a 6000 square foot penthouse with 3 rooms! There was a main area with a piano and couches. An enormous bathroom with a sauna, shower, and a bathtub. The master suite was so beautiful. It had huge windows that looked into the ocean, also draped with white linen. Ray told us something spectacular too, he told us he could put us on his friends and family rate on a cruise and get us a normal room for $250! Or the suites for not much more. I guess we might be going on a lot more cruises. I would love to do the Europe one or the meditterenean in one of those suites with a group of friends. It was time to go, so we say bye to Ray and walk into the frigid air. There is snow on the ground in NY and it's about 20 degrees. I can feel myself getting a cold already from the temperature shock. We head back to our New York home, The Westin. It feels good to be back in the Big Apple. Right away we call Alex, our concierge driver from before. He is so happy to see us. Now we want to do some shopping! So we head to Madison Ave. the best place to shop and go to Juicy Couture, I didn't get to go there last time so I tell him I MUST go there! The store is fabulous! It's two stories and has every single juicy thing you could ever want. I kind of went a little crazy...We hit some other stores and pretty much spent the whole day shopping. We worked up an appetite shopping so we went to the Carnegie Deli, which is super famous. Every inch of the walls inside were covered with framed pictures of famous people who have been there. It was a cool place to say you have gone. The food was good too in a super fattening covered in grease sort of way. We are meeting up with Shannon again tonight one last time. First stop is the Mandarin Orient Hotel for some drinks, Alex said they have the best view of the city in the sky bar there, and he was right. This place was like nothing I had seen. It looked like a queen or king would have lived there. In the middle of the bar was an enormous Chihuli piece which we took a picture in front of. The drinks were so yummy here and the view was awesome. The second stop is Tao, the original Tao in fact. We have some drinks and order an appetizer, but the place we really want to go to in Nobu. Matt and I ate at Nobu in Vegas and it was the best sushi I have ever eaten. Both of us were totally craving Nobu, which is very hard to get into. Again, Alex came through and got us reservations. Nobu! Shannon and I let Matt pick all of the food, he is great at picking the best sushi. Everything was heavenly. The portions were small but that was the best part, every bite was filled with new and interesting flavors. Strange combinations of fish and spices just exploded in your mouth and all you needed was one bite to be satisfied. That is what I call great food. From the last time we ate at Nobu, before we even took a bite tonight we could still taste the flavors from last time. Tonight, those flavors were even better. We ordered some sake which was delicious, the best part they bring you the sake in a large bamboo jug, with little bamboo shot glasses. We liked the shot glasses so much we stole them...I'm sure they wouldn't notice. What a great meal! Matt and I wanted to call an early night and Shannon has to work tomorrow so we ended the night right, happily full with a slight buzz on. We say bye to Shannon who has been such a pleasure to hang out with. She is a great girl and we can't wait to come back and see her. She is so lucky she lives in NY. Back to our hotel room and our heavenly bed..ah.

January 13th at sea, off the coast of North Carolina

We wake up to rainy cold weather...it's now settling in that we are
on our way home. Today, there is not much but playing bingo and gambling. We
eat some breakfast and meet up with Krystal and Jim for some bingo.
Jim got a bingo but had to split the $200 pot with 5 other people. We
didn't have any luck. We spent most of our time in the casino, Matt
always does well at black jack and I enjoy watching. I participated in
a slot machine tournament which was hilarious because I never play
slots but it killed some time and I actually came close to getting
first prize. But close isn't good enough. We basically roamed the boat
today aimlessly, we are both ready to get off of this thing. The first
two days at sea were exciting and new, and now that the sun is gone
it's boring and mundane. We watch the one liner comedian again, I
didn't laugh as hard this time due to my tranquilizers Ray the cruise
director gave me (aka sea calm). They made me pretty loopy and funny
all day, but at least I wasn't sick! Today we heard the weather in New
York is 3 degrees, but with the wind chill it feels like 4
degrees..yeah right when we left there it was 25 degrees and that was
well cold enough for me. We also heard that since we left Seattle,
they have been hit with about 3 other snow storms, I5 is closed due to
flooding, and they are expecting record breaking flooding throughout
Washington. I'm really glad we missed all that mess but not ready to
come back to it. I can only imagine what it would have been like with
I5 closed three days in a row. I miss my Knoxy so much, Kris, Matt's
employee who is watching the house and the dog said he is doing good.
I can't wait to hug him and give him some good loves and attention. We
hit NY at 9am tomorrow but can't get off the ship until 11, then we
have one more day in the big apple. I'm hoping to get some shopping
done since the shopping in the islands was so horrible. We are having
dinner with Krystal and Jim again at La Cucina, the Italian restaurant
here on the ship. I'm pretty sure we have tried all of the "fine
dining" places on the ship. After dinner we go to the last show of the cruise, another second city show. I really like watching these ones, because they are so much like Saturday Night Live. We all are ready to get off this ship but decided to hit the main club one more time to say goodbye to everyone and have one more drink. One more drink really meant one more drink this time thankfully. I'm glad we met some great people that I would like to stay in touch with. If we are ever in Canada we have some friends to hang out with and if we are ever in Jersey.. we have some great friends there. I'm so glad this is my last time sleeping in a rocking room!

January 12th at sea, off the coast of Florida

It's Matt's 37th birthday today! Oops, I meant 29th..I feel horrible that I am sick on his
birthday and tell myself I'm going to try and tough it out for him. I
ended up waking up at 8am today, since I had slept so much the day
before. I woke up feeling a lot better. I got out of bed and almost
fainted..which I was expecting. I was so weak from puking all day
yesterday and not eating anything. But I didn't have to puke, which
was a great thing! It was a beautiful sunny day so we decided to head
to the pool and take advantage of our last day of sun. I actually even
ate some breakfast which was a very good sign. We got great spots at
the pool and pretty much laid out all day. I even went down the water
slide. Between trips to the pool and our tanning spot, it was a great
relaxing day. Now I was really looking like a true Mexican. We decided
we had gotten enough sun and headed to play some Bingo. I have only
ever played bingo with my brother when I was a kid. This was
interesting. Lots of old people were there obviously. Next we headed
to the casino and entered in a blackjack tournament. This was my first
time playing with a real dealer and I actually did really well! It was
between myself and this girl, neck and neck the whole time. I got some
bad hands and eventually got kicked out. It was really fun though. I
may have to start playing a little blackjack for fun. We played some
slots to kill some time. We went upstairs for the second round of
Bingo and met up with Krystal and Jim the Canadian couple. They got a
bingo! So did 4 other people so they had to split the pot. Matt and I
didn't get so lucky. I think gambling and hoping to get lucky is a
waste of time personally, but I guess it kills the time when you are
on a cruise ship. I start to not feel so well again which I was really
hoping wouldn't happen so we took a two hour nap before Matt's
birthday dinner with Krystal and Jim and Cagney's Steakhouse. I love
hanging out with our new Canadian friends. We have some fun
conversations. Jim is quiet and reserved like me but you can tell he
is a smart guy. Krystal is funny and outgoing and loves to people
watch, as do Matt and I. It's always a good time to make fun of the
all the New Yorkers on the boat or the girl who can't dance. We seem
to have the same sense of humor. We order enough food for a small
army, but it's all you can eat with a small cover charge so we always
go crazy and try everything, just for fun. Matt made friends with an
older lady at the black jack table and she gave him a bottle of
sparkling wine for his birthday. Even Ray the cruise director
surprised him with a little birthday cake for dessert, with no candle
though because those aren't allowed on the boat. It was a great dinner
overall. We all went to a comedy show called, "The Liars Club," where
3 of the guys from Second City and one of the comedians were the
contestants. The audience was separated into teams. Everyone was given
a crazy word you probably never heard of like chubble, and lobcock.
One of the contestants would have the right word and the audience
would have to guess the right one. Who knew lobcock meant a very dull
and boring person? Or chubble is the movement a woman makes when
putting on her pantyhose..no joke. It was a funny show. The seas were
pretty rough so me not feeling so well was turning into really not
feeling well at all. I don't know if I was getting sea sick or my bug
was still hanging around. I think it's the food, my stomach just can't
handle this cruise food. I was feeling better until I ate, maybe I'll
just stick to fruits and veggies until the end of this thing. Either
way I tried to deal with it as long as I could. Tonight was New Years
Party #2 because we turn the clocks back an hour tonight. Just another
ploy to get people drunk and spend more money. We met up with all the
friends we have made on the cruise, the Canadians, Jeff and Kelly from
the Newlyweds game and their family (who are crazy by the way but
hilarious) and the couples from New Jersey were there. It was the most
packed I have seen the Spinaker Lounge so far. Krystal and I were
having fun people watching since neither one of us was feeling too
well. I pushed on until midnight even though I was feeling like hell.
I didn't want to disappoint all of our new cruise friends, a cute
outfit, and most of all Matt. So I stuck it out till the end of his
birthday. Matt walked me to the room and put me to bed. So, here I am.
Tomorrow is our last day and we arrive in NY Wednesday morning. I'm
taking some vitamins, a xanex, and hitting the hay. I really hope I
kick this bug by tomorrow. Goodnight!

January 11th Tortola British Virgin Islands

Matt's birthday is tomorrow! We pull into Tortola and it's like all of
the other ones. This is our last island so we decide to do an
excursion since we haven't done one yet. We signed up for the snorkel
and Virgin Gouda baths which everyone has been talking about. The
thing I hate about it is we have to get up at 6:30 am and be at the
Stardust Theatre at 7! I am the furthest thing away from being a
morning person. I basically sleep walk to the theatre, but it's going
to be worth it. We get on the boat that is taking us to the baths and
it's not quite what I expected. I thought it was going to be a
catamaran but it turned out being a big metal sort of catamaran boat
but without a sail and it was packed...I started to be not as excited
anymore. The ride there was about 30 minutes, and the waves were big. I
have never gotten sea sick in my life but I was feeling it. Luckily I
didn't puke! Just look at the horizon Jenny! We pull about 100 meters away from shore and have
to snorkel/swim to the shore..I have only snorkeled twice in my life
and one of my biggest fears is getting eaten by a shark or some other
sea creature, so of course I start hyperventilating and barely make it
to shore. What makes it worse it my goggles are all fogged up so I can
barely see what's around me. I eventually calm down but it takes me
about 10 minutes. I finally reach the shore. Now for our "Lost" style
adventure to the Gouda Baths. The trail is through 5ft opening between
4 ton sized rocks. We climb up and down wooden ladders through the
granite rock caves. The rocks are eroded in the most unusual patterns.
It's amazing. We have to hold on to ropes to get down the steep parts
of rock. There was a "larger" man in front of me who almost fell about
twenty times, it was comical. He kept asking how much longer until we
get there.They should have a disclaimer for the excursion saying "No
fatties allowed." It was easy for me to squeeze and crawl through the
small spaces. It was even a bit hard for Matt to get through the extra
small ones. I felt like Crusoe lost on a strange island. We finally
made it to the baths. Crawling from darkness into a beautiful secluded
beach. The Gouda Baths! Since the wind was picking up the baths were
pretty rough, so I decided not to snorkel and to just collect shells
and interesting rocks for our Caribbean souvenir we are going to make.
There were some beautiful shells, unlike any I have ever seen. We got
to hang out on the beach and climb around on the rocks for quite a
while. It was time to head back to the boat. We got to snorkel a bit
more on the way to the boat, and I saw some really pretty fish. A
couple on the boat had seen sting rays, that would have been something
to see. We got back to Tortola where a flea market was going on..I
wasn't feeling well at all so I threw up in the bathroom and pushed on because I
really wanted to get my Tortola shot glass. I found one and headed
back to the boat. By this time I was really getting sick. We got to
the room as fast as we could and I just started puking my guts out. At first, I
thought it was just from the ride on the bumpy boat and too much sun.
I took a nap and woke up two more times to puke between 1pm and
midnight. It wasn't what I called a good time. I came to the
conclusion it was something that I ate? Maybe the Tappenyaki last
night? The funny thing is I told Krystal at dinner that I had never gotten food poisoning before. I should have knocked on wood. Whatever it was, I never want it to happen to me again! Luckily
I took a xanex and slept through most of it, since I didn't have much
in my stomach. I'm just glad it happened after we finished our
excursion and had nothing else special to do since this was our last
island. Hopefully this is one of those 12hr things...hopefully. The good thing is I'm probably going to lose all the weight I have gained on this trip. I heard the average weight gain on a cruise is 5 pounds!!

January 10th St. Maarten French West Indies

We don't get into port today until 11am so we got a good nights sleep
in. This place is beautiful like the rest. This time we aren't
bombarded by islanders yelling, "want a taxi?" or, "want to go to da
beach?" Actually, we aren't asked once. They have all the prices
posted up so there's no ripping people off, and a great bus system
that takes people to the place they ALL want to go. It seems like they
have banned that kind of hustling for taxis. This place also has a
steel drum band welcoming you. I like this place the best already! I
know I keep saying that but every island seems to get better. We
decide to head to Orient Beach. We have only heard great things about
this place. The drive there is much more pleasant than other rides we
have taken. The driver was friendly, and he was playing Caribbean
music. So, St. Marten is a divided island, as a result of the colonial
tug of war between European powers in the Caribbean. Columbus actually
discovered the island first in 1493 but the Spanish never developed
the island after claiming it. Dutch settlers arrived in the early
1600's. Legend has it that a Frenchman and a Dutchman finally settled
an argument over territorial rights by pacing off their shares. The
French got the bigger slice but the Dutch got the most valuable real
estate. The island even has a marked border. Driving into the French
side there was a sign that read, "Bienvenue en Partie Francaise," the
other one reads, "Welcome to the dutch Sint Marten. All the signs
turned into French rather than English and there are way more white
people on the French side. It was amazing how the entire culture
changed so radically within a 15 minute cab ride. Orient Beach is a
very long beach with restaurants and stores all alone it. The
restaurants rent out beach chairs and umbrellas in front of their
spot. We walked the whole beach. Orient is a clothing optional beach,
the drive there we saw a nudist resort which I thought was hilarious.
Actually half of the beach is a completely nude part. Our side was
just mostly topless women. During our walk we saw a lot of boobies!
We even saw some men in banana hammocks with nothing but a pouch and
strings. We settled down at Kontiki. Today we decided was going to be
devoted to getting our tan on. Yesterday we looked around and realized
we were still pale compared to our other cruisers. We slathered on the
tanning oil, ordered some drinks/snacks and kicked back. It was a
beautiful day today, about 85 degrees with a wonderful cool breeze and
barely any clouds in the sky. Our chairs were in the front row, right
on the water. I decided to take advantage of the clothing optional
policy. I had done some topless tanning on our private balcony the
last couple days but here there were people... Normally I would be too
shy to just let the girls hang out but after some convincing from Matt
I took off my top! We were in a pretty scarce area so not too many
people were around, mostly older couples. So I thought what the heck,
I had some drinks in me and I'm never going to see any of these people
again. After 5 minutes, I actually felt very liberated and even forgot
I had taken my swimsuit top off! No tan lines for this girl! I bought
a super cute anklet with pink sea glass and white beads from one of
the women selling items on the beach, Matt got the price from $10 to
$6, such a bargainer. Note, I was shopping for jewelry whilst topless
which I have been giggling about. We would go for a dip every now and
then when we got too hot and needed a cool down or had to pee. Natures
sewer, right. It was the perfect day today. Nothing went wrong, no
rude people, a beautiful laid back island. It was definitely our kind
of place. We decided we are coming back here for sure! We spent all
day here and had to be back at the boat by 5. We got a good full day
of tanning in. Now I look like I could be a native. I tan like a
Mexican, pretty lucky for a white girl. Matt got some great color too.
We head back to the port and have about 45 mins to shop. There is
nothing in the port area except for jewelry stores and crappy souvenir
stores. I did get another shot glass, it says, "Buried my treasure in
St. Maarteen, and it has a little pirate skeleton hanging off the
outside of the glass. I thought it was adorable. I'm really excited
about this new hobby. I'm going to have the most bad ass shot glass
collection ever. I haven't done much shopping since we left New York.
Little things here and there. We do have one more day in NY when we
get back so I'll save it all for there. Best shopping in the USA! We
have dinner with Krystal and Jim the Canadian couple at the tappenyaki
restaurant. The kind where the stove is right in front of you and they
chop and cook all your food very crazy like. I'm excited! Side note,
when I write these logs I am sitting on the balcony, with the sounds
of the ocean in my ears and the sun on my face. This is why I love
vacations, and I never want to forget this moment.

January 9th Barbados West Indies

Matt didn't feel so well today, he has a slight sinus infection. So I
got up early by myself and went to the gym while he slept in. By this
time the Newlywed Show is playing on a loop on the activities channel
on the cabin tv's, and everyone knows who I am. I got a lot of
different feedback from people, everyone enjoyed the show and had more
questions. Someone will recognize us and get the attention of the
people they are with and point and smile, lots of, "is that them,"
and, " Oh yeah! That's that one couple!" By this time, I'm starting to
get a little annoyed. These people are like the verbal paparazzi! We
are already in port at Barbados. This place is a lot different because
the ship port isn't right in town like the last two places have been,
here you have to get on a bus and it takes you about 2 minutes to the
end of the port area. We are greeted by a steel drum band! I like it
already. There is a shopping mall right where the buses drop you off
but nothing very good there, except for the Liquor store, which we buy
a fifth of absolute mango for $13 which I have never tried and fill
our huge water bottle with it...shame on us. But the price of the
fifth is a price of a cocktail on the ship. Even though we made
friends with the cruise director who has already bought us about $200
dollars worth of alcohol and a very nice dinner, we are starting to
feel bad. Barbados is much more developed than the last two places
due to a more strict and better set up government. There are
government officials everywhere in light brown uniforms. We were also
informed you could not wear camouflage here or you would be sent back
to change. The streets and buildings are very clean here. We find a
lady taxi driver and she wants $200 dollar for 3 hours of driving us
around, Matt is a great bargainer and got it down to $120, she was
pretty pissed but we didn't really care. We skipped breakfast today so
we could be hungry for some Barbadian cuisine. We went to a place
called The Tides, which we read in our book is the best restaurant on
the island. The restaurant is beautiful! It was made of stone and was
right on the water. The place was all open so the cool breeze coming
through felt great. Our taxi drivers nephew actually worked there so
she got to hang out with him while we ate. We were told to eat before
we got hungry because the service in Barbados is island time plus 30
minutes, we found this out quick. First they sat us in a lounge area
in the bar so we got some fruity cocktails. We hung out in there for
about 30 minutes...oh and we were the only people in the restaurant so
far. Finally they come to seat us outside, we got the best spot in the
place. Right on the water, I could taste the salt of the sea. It was a
beautiful day too, 87 degrees and sunny. This place was very British
and proper. I went to the restroom and when I got back my napkin was
folded...very British. This meal was phenomenal! We started with
appetizers, shrimp, oysters, and crab spring rolls...every single one
was rave worthy. Then for main course I got a tuna salad which was
great but I was so full so I boxed it up to eat on the ship later,
much better then the ship food! Matt got the catch of the day which
happened to be barracuda! Neither of us had eaten it before and it was
very tasty. I wish they had barracuda in Seattle. If we come back we
will eat there again for sure. Then we drove around the island for a
bit, our driver took us to the oldest church in Barbados which was
built in 1628! It was fascinating in a creepy sort of way. The yard
around the church was surrounded with tombstones, there was even a guy
buried in the wall of the church, how creepy is that. This island is
much more tropical than the other places. Now we felt like some sun so
we headed to a place called The Boatyard, this is the place where most
of the boat staff go to and the taxi driver said it gets pretty rowdy.
It was a fun little spot, except for the $15 per lounge chair, yeah
right. We just laid on our towels. They had a bar which was blasting
music and having dance contests for free drinks. We didn't hang out in
there much, I just felt like working on my tan and swimming. You know
how you can never float on your back for long in a pool, well in this
water you float like a feather because of all the salt, interesting
fact. We will have to remember that spot when we come back on want to
get a little rowdy. Today is a short day, we got here at 9 and have to
be back at 4. I wasn't too happy about that because this place was
really nice. Another time. This place is beautiful, our taxi lady was
a bitch though but I didn't let her ruin this visit. On our way back
to the ship I bought a shot glass that has the island of Barbados and
some flowers on it, the Canadian couple said they collect shot glasses
from everywhere they go. I really liked that idea, I didn't buy any at
Antigua or St. Thomas but will just have to cheat and get some
online.I have a body treatment at 4:45 today which I am stoked for! I
can't wait to be pampered. A lime and ginger full body scrub, pro-
collagen Facial, foot reflexology(which I have never done) frangipani
scalp massage(whatever that is)and one hour in the sauna and steam
room. This should be fun! My treatment was amazing! Actually one of my
best experiences at a spa. Their steam room was incredible too, and I
love steam rooms. I sat in there for about 30 mins with a great view
of the ocean. Matt and I have some time to wind down before the night
begins. Matt bought me a beautiful swarovsky necklace in the shape of
a moon today, I love it! What a sweet heart. There is a comedy sketch
improvisation show tonight called Second City, a lot like who's line
is it anyway. It was a good show. I laughed a lot. Then we head up to
the Spinakker Lounge for another comedian, I forgot his name. He was
from NY and had a lot of one liners. I can barely remember one joke
let alone 400! He had some good ones, but he had some really bad ones
too. Next we head to Bliss Lounge for a couple drinks, nothing too
crazy, we have a big day tomorrow in St. Maarteen!